Wow. Good lyrics. My neighborhood was middle-middle class. Grew up comfortable, but with a tight budget and few luxuries. Went to a high school further out in the ‘burbs of Omaha, which was desegrated, so learned all about class distinctions there. 20th reunion coming up. Gonna celebrate it by ignoring it completely (although I have a temptation to sabotage the golf outing).

“Wow. Good lyrics. My neighborhood was middle-middle class. Grew up comfortable, but with a tight budget and few luxuries. Went to a high school further out in the ‘burbs of Omaha, which was desegrated, so learned all about class distinctions there. 20th reunion coming up. Gonna celebrate it by ignoring it completely (although I have a temptation to sabotage the golf outing).”

Check out more of Pulp’s discography, most of their music dealt with such themes.

@Tony Tower: the shots were chosen in order for three reasons, either they mirrored what was happening in the lyrics (such as the giant Spock touching the normal sized Spock’s head and saying “Cut your hair and get a job”), or it was easy to get loop animation so that the lips were in synch (for the most part… towards the end I did give up on two shots).

Most people seem to enjoy it, I’m sorry you didn’t; however, if it exposed you to Shatner’s version of “Common People” for the first time and find you love it, then it did it’s job.

Kirkslashspock: I apologize for the snark. This is something you did for fun – which is is – and I shouldn’t hammer you with my over-perfectionist tendancies.

I bought HAS BEEN when it came out, though, and “Common People” has been rocking my iPod for as long as I’ve had one. But I’m sure this will be someone’s first exposure for the track, and that IS work well done.

@Tony Tower: Do not worry about it, I am not new to the internets. I mostly did this to promote Shatner’s song and to practice video editing (I just got the new version of Sony Vegas) and it was fun. There are some really weird reactions, though–obviously, at least in the beginning, I’m poking some fun at slash stories regarding Kirk and Spock… some felt that I was pushing some homosexual agenda. Yeah. Because, when the gays finally take over, they’ll do it through cartoon mashups.